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Territorial Force War Medal Trio, British War Medal, Victory Medal, General Service Medal bar Iraq, Territorial Efficiency Medal, Sergeant Sidney Hoblyn, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Walked in front of a Train in Toronto during 1960.

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Territorial Force War Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal, General Service Medal bar Iraq, Territorial Efficiency Medal, Sergeant Sidney Hoblyn, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.

 

A rare volunteers campaign medal grouping to the D.C.L.I.

 

Sidney Hoblyn, was born on 22nd November 1890 at Bank Street, St Columb Major, Cornwall. The son of William Hoblyn and Ellen Garland Colliver.

 

He entered his local regiment the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry as a Territorial, and earned his Territorial Efficiency Medal as a Corporal in 5th Battalion D.C.L.I.

 

As a volunteer to serve overseas he earned the Territorial Force War Medal, British War Medal and Victory Medal Trio earned with the 1st/5th Battalion D.C.L.I.

 

Continuing his service after the war he was sent to Iraq, earning the General Service Medal, bar Iraq as a Sergeant with the regiment.

 

After taking his discharge following his return home, he then set sail on the S.S. Auronia on 26th March 1923, bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia. He went over intending to become a Farm Settler under a new Government Scheme to encourage emigration.

 

Not long after his arrival in Canada he married Florence Jessica Smart during 1925.

 

On 23rd July 1960 he was living in Toronto, Ontario, aged 70 when it was reported by the Windsor Star that he had been hit by a train and killed.

 

The Windsor Star, 23rd July 1960:
“HIT BY TRAIN
Toronto (CP) – Police said Sidney Hoblyn, 70, today ignored lowered gates at a railway crossing in Toronto’s west end and walked in front of a passenger train, the engine struck and killed him.”